"Post your Art" Thread

Philly Cheese Steak said:
Does anyone else who draws stuff go through like a mid life crisis every week and then their stuff gets shit and then the next week you feel like the greatest artist ever and your art seems infinitly better
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All the fucking time.

There is this one great post about how it's your skills and expectations trying to catch up with each other - I can't find it but it explains it as your feel bad as you revise up your standards and then feel accomplished when your skill catches up and even overshoots your expectations - which is why I sound really full of myself when I drew this (I dare not link you to the post, but this was about three years ago), because at the time my skill overshot my expectation, then this year I drew this and was wholly unsatisfied with the result.

So when you feel really dissatisfied with your work, think of it this way - your expectations are now greater than your skill, which can be frustrating, but you have clearly managed to match and outdo your expectations each time previously, so continuing to work on it will produce results!
 
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Geo said:
All the fucking time.

There is this one great post about how it's your skills and expectations trying to catch up with each other - I can't find it but it explains it as your feel bad as you revise up your standards and then feel accomplished when your skill catches up and even overshoots your expectations - which is why I sound really full of myself when I drew this (I dare not link you to the post, but this was about three years ago), because at the time my skill overshot my expectation, then this year I drew this and was wholly unsatisfied with the result.

So when you feel really dissatisfied with your work, think of it this way - your expectations are now greater than your skill, which can be frustrating, but you have clearly managed to match and outdo your expectations each time previously, so continuing to work on it will produce results!
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I do get that sometimes.
 
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Last page, I almost of feel bad for him here. He had just realized that his life is a mess and now this happens!
As I was working on some of the earlier pages, I was listening to the song Lord of this World by Black Sabbath. This particular part stood out to me.
Your world was made for you by someone above
but you chose evil ways instead of love
you made me master of the world where you exist
the soul I took from you was not even missed
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I've been really into Dirty Bomb lately and my favorite merc is Nader. I decided to draw her because why not? Carpal tunnel gave me hell and I don't really draw people but here have a sketch.

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I intend to do a background of her fleeing an airstrike and whatnot, hence the strange-ish pose when out of context. Basically, big bada boom.
 
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Not even traditional West African sculptors will be safe from online crusaders for "social responsibility" in the arts.

I don't mean this to mock women who seriously struggle with insecurity about their bodies. Getting in shape is good for your health (and good health is the baseline for most beauty standards across species), but there are many more ways to be a good human being and a worthwhile contributor to society than fitting this or that physical beauty standard.

Rather, what I meant to say is that while everyone should enjoy the right to criticize artwork (freedom of speech), those who seek to impose their narrow standards of morality or "social responsibility" onto artists can be obnoxious as hell. I know this from experience. The idea for this cartoon actually came from this list of "commandments" for comic artists that claimed comics should promote "realistic body types", which I felt would discriminate against artists who don't work with realistic comic-book art styles. And that would include most of the non-Western world. Of course there have long been West African artists producing "realistic" art (e.g. the Yoruba busts from Ife in Nigeria, which rival even the best Egyptian equivalents in realism), but in general most of them work with highly stylized, exaggerated anatomical proportions for men and women. They would be among the first to suffer from some universally imposed standard of "body realism".

In short, here's my advocacy for the freedom of artistic vision over certain ideas of forced "social responsibility".
 
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Geo said:
Finished! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
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She sure has a fearsome fashion sense, and good taste in melee weapons!

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This mother T. rex is serving her yearlings some lean meat in the form of an okapi (Okapia johnstoni) while her mate keeps watch in the background. Small giraffids may not have as much meat to spare as a twelve-ton Triceratops, but they're less fattening.

I like to imagine Tyrannosaurus rex as a pair-bonding species with more or less egalitarian gender roles, with the male and female switching hunting and parenting responsibilities between each other on a regular basis. Today it was the female's turn to hunt; next time it will be her hubby's.

And yes, the yearling to the right is a melanistic (all black) variant like you see in leopards and jaguars today, whereas her brother to the left has more typical juvenile coloring for their species.
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Many centuries after the extinction of humanity, an African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) exchanges gazes with what was once the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt.

I always wanted to imagine that life on our planet will endure even after our species die out, much as it did after the non-avian dinosaurs.
BTW does anyone here know of a technique for softening lines? I feel mine come out too jagged after I scan them in and apply leveling (brightening the white space and darkening the blacks) in Photoshop.
 
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TyrannoNinja said:
BTW does anyone here know of a technique for softening lines? I feel mine come out too jagged after I scan them in and apply leveling (brightening the white space and darkening the blacks) in Photoshop.
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What I generally do with traditional sketches in Photoshop is set a solid color layer above the lineart (can be as light or dark as desired), then set that layer to Multiply, then apply a clipping mask for all other aspects of the coloring, which can be as many layers as you want above that solid layer. For editing the lineart I generally use Curves, and for any scuffs or mess that I want to get rid of I use the Clone Stamp tool to add in the clean paper texture over that. That way you can maintain the quality of your original pencil lines without sacrificing cleanliness.

These are really simple examples of this in practice, but you get the idea.

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I mean there is also the option of doing digital inking on a layer over traditional lines then just working with the digital inks. Honestly I never do that crap because I am a bit on the lazy ass side!

edit: clarified my language a little because it was a bit murky
 
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TyrannoNinja said:
She sure has a fearsome fashion sense, and good taste in melee weapons!

BTW does anyone here know of a technique for softening lines? I feel mine come out too jagged after I scan them in and apply leveling (brightening the white space and darkening the blacks) in Photoshop.
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Thankyou!

As for softening lines, I'm not certain for if you're illustrating from a pencil sketch. When I was digitally finishing pencil drawings I would usually line over the image using a tablet - but I don't think that's what you want? I think @BirdSim's suggestion is a goood suggestion.

Next image: Niko and Tarkis; two characters described to me as 'two parts of a whole', with the knight being blind and wholly reliant on the direction of the smaller man. It's overdone but I'm having fun designing them both.

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Edit for update and this really bizarre ask that I got regarding the two characters:

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